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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9016665" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Blades in the Dark gives you both Position, and Effect as considerations relative to the type of ability you are attempting to use, its applicability to the situation, and the context. Honestly though, in the end if the GM, or some sort of negotiation between the player and GM is setting these values, its going to be judgment of one sort or another. I mean, its like the whole argument about the meaning of AC in 1e vs AC in 4e. Yeah, 1e AC can be translated into a specific fictional element (AC4, chain and shield) but the GM just sets the AC and picks whatever equipment that implies, there's no real substance to the world that gives it any more ultimate meaning than the pure &quot;you are level X, so your AC is Y&quot; of 4e. I mean, admittedly, 4e fails to tell you how to describe AC18, but BOTH games run off the scale and slide things around with magic, etc. so much that if it means anything at all in AD&amp;D it is only in the first few levels.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9016665, member: 82106"] Blades in the Dark gives you both Position, and Effect as considerations relative to the type of ability you are attempting to use, its applicability to the situation, and the context. Honestly though, in the end if the GM, or some sort of negotiation between the player and GM is setting these values, its going to be judgment of one sort or another. I mean, its like the whole argument about the meaning of AC in 1e vs AC in 4e. Yeah, 1e AC can be translated into a specific fictional element (AC4, chain and shield) but the GM just sets the AC and picks whatever equipment that implies, there's no real substance to the world that gives it any more ultimate meaning than the pure "you are level X, so your AC is Y" of 4e. I mean, admittedly, 4e fails to tell you how to describe AC18, but BOTH games run off the scale and slide things around with magic, etc. so much that if it means anything at all in AD&D it is only in the first few levels. [/QUOTE]

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